I have fixed size array x: [T; N]. I want to save part of it in heap allocated memory. And after that (in another code point) I want to copy count items from some such heap allocated array to fixed size stack allocated array. What is the best way / types to do it?
Currently I use &x[0..items].to_vec().into_boxed_slice() for first task (give me Box<[T]>) and don't know how to do second task. And also Vec<T> usage (even temporary) looks redundant because I don't need resizable container just fixed size heap allocated array (but size is determined in runtime).
Anyway, how can I copy count first items from b: Box<[T]> to x: [T; N]. Of course, I can do it with loop but I want most effective implementation like memcpy (it's assumed that T is copyable)
You'd have to initialize the [T; N] first, then use .copy_from_slice(). The initialization of the array should hopefully be removed since it's immediately overwritten.